February 20, 2012 in Made by Mom
It was the night before we were to bring our plain Tshirts to our church gathering to have them screenprinted that I remembered it was the night before we were to bring our plain Tshirts to our church gathering to have them screenprinted. Neither of my children had a plain [...]
February 18, 2012 in Made by Mom, Other People's Stuff I Like
For the most part, I just feed Josiah whatever we’re eating. Lately he has been requesting a lot of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I make them pretty boring…the only variation being whether I cut it in half lengthwise or crosswise. But I have been inspired of late to have [...]
February 17, 2012 in Making our House a Home
Yesterday, I showed you the walk-in closet behind these lovely doors…Today, let me tell you about the doors, themselves I found this set of french doors on Craigslist for $45.Since we bought used doors, they didn’t come with the door jam. So we made one ourselves. It wasn’t too tough, [...]
February 16, 2012 in Making our House a Home
It was one year ago yesterday that I posted this post about our basement bedroom: what it looked like when we moved in, the way we had been using it up until then, and the things about it that just weren’t working for us anymore. A few weeks later, I [...]
February 8, 2012 in Announcements
I have recently started “partying”…at other blogger’s link parties, that is. It has been fun! (A link party is where one blogger hosts a “party” and other bloggers are able to “link up” their posts. There are LOTS of parties going on in the blog world …with hundreds of post [...]
February 5, 2012 in Made by Mom
To make these fun stamps, all you need are a few plain old spuds.All you have to do is cut ‘em in half, etch out a design with the tip of your knife or a pen……and then cut away the negative space. It will look something like this:Smear some paint [...]
January 30, 2012 in Made by Mom
I painted this dresser the summer before I started college to use in my dorm room, and used it through my senior year. It started out all dark brown…with a layer of wall paper stuff that pretends to look like wood. I am not sure where it came from. Here [...]
January 26, 2012 in Made by Mom
This post has been featured! Last week, I shared pictures from our Baby Dedication Backyard Party and promised a tutorial for how to make these rosebud topiaries.Here it is! What you’ll need: -Several rolls of crepe paper for the roses (I used pink…but I think white, red, or yellow rosebuds [...]
January 25, 2012 in Making our House a Home
This post has been featured! Our computer crashed yesterday. SO FRUSTRATING!!! Really makes me wish I had stood in line for one of those $200 laptops on Black Friday. But I didn’t. So here I am, at the public library with a wiggling baby on my lap trying to stay [...]
January 21, 2012 in Other People's Stuff I Like
There are several places in my home that are in need of an accent pillow or two. Some of those pillows will likely be made from this round-up of great pillow tutorials I’ve been swooning over. I love these pintuck pillows from Ashley, of Cherished Bliss. They won one of [...]
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